Bobigny – An eight-year Comorian allowed to stay in France after 12 days in the waiting area – L’Express

The little boy without papers was on a plane Friday morning, ready to go to Comoros accompanied by an escort. Hours later, he went to live with her aunt in Paris.

March 21: the child arrives alone at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport with the French passport of her cousin five years. He must reach his aunt, who was briefly placed in custody after trying to impersonate her mother, according to an airport source.

It is then placed in “ waiting area ” at the airport, the time that the police conducts audits. Found by the Embassy of France in Comoros, the mother agrees to take her son. Justice valid twice retention waiting area.

The child’s return to the Comoros, whose organization meeting the logistical difficulties, is pushed back to Friday morning.

Once on the plane, the child “ stormed and cried and the captain refused to take the ,” said an airport source.

The little boy is resubmitted to the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD) of the Bobigny court, refusing the extension of his detention in the waiting area. It authorizes de facto to enter France.

The judge “ acknowledged that there was no serious guarantee of support to the Comoros since in fact the mother could no longer support ” told AFP Laure Blondel, a leader of Anafé Association (national Assistance to foreign border).

In the afternoon, the prosecutor decides to “ entrust the child to her aunt “, according to counsel the boy, Ms. Catherine Daoud, pending the “ juvenile judge ensures including educational requirements and its enrollment .”

– “ Encouragement ” to traffic –

Anafé, denouncing with other associations placement in juvenile holding area, critical the fact that the child was taken to the aircraft while the hearing before the JLD was scheduled for the morning.

The boy got off the machine “ thanks to captain ” who refused to take off with him, “ if it is en route to the Comoros “:” It went really played anything “

The Defender Jacques Toubon, who” glad . ” in a press release of the boy, “ also questions the decision was taken to try to reroute (the) morning even to the Comoros .”

On receipt of the situation for several days, he explains that he “ alerted the authorities ” and have “ indignant confinement of this young child, in violation of the Convention on the rights of the child . ”

Conversely, the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, Philippe Galli, “ can only regret this situation .”

He said in a statement that “ it was an obstacle to implementation of Republic Act ” and that “ child is now separated from sustainably his biological parents . ”

“ This is a sign of encouragement to the development of industries and harmful traffic rights of children ,” he adds.

In June 2015, the retained several days in the waiting area at Roissy two girls 3 and 6 years had led to the opening of investigations by the Defender.

The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, had then given “ instructions ” to ensure that “ checks are carried out in a very short time, especially when it comes to young children . ”